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The online edition of'PAATOM'Magazine founded byMN Vijayan-

In the Context of diffusion of imperialist machinery into the Indian Communist movementsPAATOMraises indignant resistance against the hell of ideology and praxis vitiated by the pseudo Marxist goons of imperium.

'PAATOM' is a resistance from the deepest of the racial sanctity of humanity nursed by the leftist political ethos."PAATOM" is the voice of honest determination, that means to uncover the treacherous objects concealed beneath the mystery of hegemonic jargon.

We offer a laborious contribution to the truly humanist interventions that would enlarge the circumference and depth of emotional and intellectual perceptions.

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Strike!, October, Battleship Potemkin! The vivid poetic montages of Eisenstein cinema created an intellectual universe that thrust upon us the sheer force of political movements. The vigor of emotions, kinesthetics of movement of people across the streets, the organic unity of the masses, the synthesis of ideas in public, dream vocabulary; it was the realization of a film sense that resonates in the heights of imagination. Even after nearly a century, this film sense inspires my political blood and rips of the media clutter of our times.

Occupy Wall street Movement (OWM) ! A conglomeration of people in the ivory towers of finance capital in gargantuan scale. The volume, variety and velocity of people associating at a global happening place! The world wide media coverage and the news flash showered upon their initiatives are beyond the reach for any working class organization aligned to communist or socialist movements. Yet they fail to send ripples down the memory lane. It freezes in the thin time frames of our life. When I tries to recollect the organic unity of the event, OWM reminds me of yet another flash-mob that happens in shopping malls or public spaces.

The movement arithmetic of contemporary anarchists fail to rip off the fundamental equations and governing laws of finance capital and new forces of hegemony. OWM lacked the coherent vision required to overthrow the hegemonic forces of finance capital. They proclaimed themselves as the 'movement of squares'. Out of the polemic and rhetoric, what do they really signify? As a political activist, should I be concerned if my movement should be only inspired by Tiananmen square protests? A mass resistance to the walls of finance capital should not be allergic to the trade unions and political parties. International Socialism magazine hails OWM as 'Construction of mass experiments in cooperative living'.

We know the deplorable extents to which the mass experiments of cooperative living corrupted the public spaces in the Anna Hazare model experiments for cooperative living. They fail even to qualify to be called as anarchist for the simple reason that they had no democratic ideology or a basic inspiration in the values of peoples democracy.

Strike is not a carnival moment for participatory living in the market spaces. It is a call for overhaul in the ways of market capitalism. When required to communicate the strength and significance of the cause, it disrupts the passive living of the market dynamics. The obsessive embrace and hedonistic inspirations of mass experiments in OWM completely forgotten that the any movement that calls for a social change must be united by a logical goal that unites the length and breadth of the movement.

They hail a term called direct democracy! Who would you like to be the cardinal of the direct democracy. Imperial nation states? multi national corporate syndicates? A movement rationale should know the phases and strategic critical path for transitioning from each phase. #Lenin and #Grmasci had written elaborately on the tactical directions for collective resistance against an oppressive market force and its institution.

A collective resistance will never be frozen in time. The class struggle will not strive to amplify the market force or an institution. The first and foremost contribution of OWM to the social consciousnesses is that it amplified the significance of #WallStreet. What is wall street really? Just another trading center of market capitalism. It is just a place where all the market manipulations take place. By overthrowing wall street you are not going to eliminate the finance capital forces. They have incarcerated each ounce of our political institution. They have penetrated into the tiniest entities of governing and bureaucratic entities in government.

Thus the basic nature of market hegemony still remains very much the same. The different form of commoditization that emerged in our times is in society and social organizations itself. It was what we call ambiguously as 'Social capital'. The #NGOs, #CSOs, the Carnival Celebration organizations (CMO) can be seen as the manifestations of this abhorrent and hedonistic conscience in the society. They act as the cheerleaders of the finance capital. They can stage manage the protests at any mammoth scale. They can get you any hit rate on social media and TRP in Global television channels. It is such a versatility and innovation that oppressors and oppressed becomes hale and happy at the end of a six month long mass resistance. All is well!

Thus mass resistance becomes a corporate ritual for branch awareness and market positioning. They strip naked their half baked intellect in front of the altars of the market and corporate. They scream, they howl, they dance, they enact all sort of epic plays to incite a tickle of laughter or an apathetic gaze in the pathological senses of finance colonialists.

Yes, it is very hard to digest the sumptuous meals and the folk art served in your mass media in Kerala soil. When the communist movement of Kerala in Solar protest plummets to an OWM scale of irrationality it invokes the memories of a ritual to titillate the emotive prowess of the Sun God. It becomes nothing more than a 48 hour long stage drama forgetting the root causes of solar scam and the market dynamics of energy politics behind the scene. However this is the moment of truth for a political critic to realize that market can commodity even out of the resistances against it and to make mileage and media attention out of it.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

S.Sudhish Solar fraud agitation:

Mimicry of a revolution and the festival of cowardice

And there ends the siege demonstrated by ten
thousands, the mimicry of a revolution, staged and steered to an infant death
by the left democratic front in Kerala ; theCPM channel itself claimed that the left democratic front in Kerala was just
mimicking the Anna hazarre - wall street model , and the huge show of bombastic man power, despite its tiny food package- discipline and
subdued revelry, had its final twist
towards the inevitable comedy of pathos that inflicted expensive insult upon the
memory ofpeople’s revolutions. Marx
said it : the valorous heroic commitments of an age that inspired the race with
ethos of self-sacrificial justice would suffer a pathetic comic exit from
history with the cry of a caricature. The
people of Kerala witnessed and heard the distorted phonetic outbursts of a
moaning as Pinarayi Vijayan claimed the
victory of the battle ludicrous that betrayedhis blood and spine and the brave heart of history .The exit ludicrous ,ispart of laws governing history. The communist
movement in Kerala is no exception to the inevitable, a death by thefinance capital explosion

As people from different corners of
the state gathered and joined the great
ocean of demonstrations, liberating roaring leaps of anguish in thunderous
voices the
performance in toto happened to be a shadow of people’s democratic revolution abandoned
in the leaves ofthe Indian text of
Marxist battle discourse . But the episode vibrant with enormous expressions of
sentimental sound and fury was
constructed upon two pseudo political demands:(1) resignation of Oo. Chandy,
the depleted chief minister of Kerala, shored together by the insensible bosses inthe supreme high command of the political
absurd (2) a judicial enquiry, which has
been established as a perennial joke in the diary of political economy. Why the
left democratic front estimated the resignation of a petty officerofthe
financial colonial rule -- an issue reduced to mean personal level--. as cause
competent for a great battle and siegeof secretariat is a penetrating question for which there is noanswer from untainted sanity. Solar fraud is
a disastrous issue, a malady, at the international level and it is a game of
fraud played by the aggressive cerebrum of finance capitalism and its explosive
marketing machineryThe tainted minister
is only a pawn, a minor port that smuggles the malady intothe commerce of human life , the flaring symptom of which is the abuse of
finance, initiated with the decentralization of economy. The resignation of the
tainted minister is a minor cause disproportionate to the massive show of a
struggle , as the major causeisprivatization anarchy commencing with solar
energy marketing propelled by the foreign multinational forces

. Thegovernment at the centre as well as governments in the Indian states are
infected with the solar malady, the virus of which was transmitted into the
Indian bloodwith the system syringe of
the infamous agreement between the Indian government and W.T.O; It was an
agreementto provide governmental
attestation to the financial abuse played by foreign companies and their Indian
subordinatesand the chief minister of Kerala, whether it be Oo.
Chandy or Achuthanandan who provides subsidy and attestation to the solar
global commerce, is only a petty subordinateagent and a beneficient spider of the universal finance industry of
solar fraud; The summary of thisobservation is that the farce of a
great battle generated at such an expansive dimensionlackedserious politicalfocus as the
cause projected was a silly Oo Chandy affair, resignation of a politicalofficer degenerate. The degenerate sites of political power exposed in the present solar light, testify
to the financial obscenity inherent incolonization and privatization ofenergy and sources of energy in our countryThe great show which suffered premature
abortion effected distraction and diversion from the focal problem of
privatization and colonization of the national energy asset, and reduced
everything to Oo Chandy level as desired by masters of manipulation;

Resignation
of a minister in this context is a non issue, for violation of political ethics and morality is the habit and habitat of the ruling class in the post globalization era ; The minister caught red handed ,who clings on to the needle end of power to
prove his pedigree of politics is a specimen of degenerate capitalist democracy
stripped off its bogus values of political morality. The tainted minister
claims the status none the better than that of a pick
pocket who argues with astounding self
pride that though persons administered
by his will snatched crores out of the street travelers’ pockets, it did not
cause a single penny damage to the state exchequer, and hence the skilled pick pocket is the mettle of amarvelous ruler eligible to hold the office of the honorable minister!! It smells
magic realism, as such rulers madmaddenedand manufactured with
the stuff of lunatic irony are often found lickingand murmuring similar dismal jokes in the
literary terrain of south America

The leaders of the left front
conceded the point thatthe entry of
solar extortion into the contentand frame of public economy did not cause a
single penny damageto the state
exchequer .The left was
constrainedto confess the horror of its
political illiteracy as they conceded the nopublic exchequer damagetheoryof the tainted chief minister, or they
concealed the truth of knowledge beneath their breastthat the state exchequer is put to disastrous
extortion of its content in the context of the obsessive solar commerce sermonized
by the state and central governments.

Extortion of money from the public
exchequer is legalized in the form of subsidy. R. Balakrishna pillai, a person
anointed in a post with cabinet rank and former minister and sitting M.L.A Ganesh
kumar in a statement told the people of Kerala, that they could obtain subsidy
from the government for their roof top
solar installations.The subsidy
amountenjoyed by the two persons of the
affluent class alone would come up around six lakhs if we are to believe the
text of promise given by Com. V.S. Achuthanandan , the chief propagandist of
solar mission. Sixty percent of the cost for solar installation is jointly paid
by the state and the centre from the public exchequer and in the name of the holy
cow termed customer, the moneytaken away from the state exchequer isposted in the accounts of the foreign company, and its local agents.
Remember as per the W.T.O agreement the Government of India is constrained to
extend maximum number of orders toU.S. companies or their agents
at the local level.The affluent class
is of course overjoyed with the amazing percentage of concession , but the customer class is only a device and the final beneficiary is the
private company, mostly and fundamentally foreign.

The Oo. Chandy government
under the diabolic compulsions of its brain stained with genetic criminal
impulses, contemplated an order to install solar on all police station
buildings and issued a directionto install
solar on all buildings occupyingan area
of 250O sq.ft. or more; Com Achuthanandan, the chief propagandist of solar,
lives in all fool’s dream world--- it is
the tragic fate of this poor old man---nursing the innocent belief that
solar would bring cheap rate energy for the BPL people. The criminals feeding
intelligence to the poor old man think thathe is not sane and sensible enough to find the fact that the BPL
population don’t have buildings of 2500 sq.ft owned by them and the area needed
for raising solar in a dependable working condition is that of abuilding with a minimum of 2500sq.ft. The BPL category falls out of focus then, and
the subsidized solar may tickle the sensations of luxury, caressed by an R.V.G.Menon or R.B.Pillai who belong to
supra affluent class. The government of Kerala had a project designed for one
lakh solar rooftops ,the cost of which
may vary from three lakhs to seven lakhs per installation and the governments are committed to pay around sixty percent of the total cost of one lakh roof top miracles from the public
treasury. The damage done to the state exchequer just to honour the agreements
with W,T.O. . World Bank, USAID or any such dubious money lenders, is
unprecedented in the history of Indian economy The World Bank, A.D.B or USAID
lend you money in substantial quantum with a strict dictate that it should not
be used for production oriented projects . The voluminous flow of finance is
meant not for use but for abuse and the governmental subsidy for solar which gallops
up to sixty percent of the total cost rushes forth from the state exchequer to the
private foreign companies and intermediaries. The return of the loans back with
the interest is yet another pernicious liability that would eat out even the bottom
layer of the public exchequer The
subsidy with the bondages of loan repayment and interest, programmed by the
Government is a shocking instance of the abuse of financethat would crush the very logic of an
institution termed state exchequer . But the supreme breeds of political frauds
tell you that not single penny damage is done to the state exchequer.

Apart from the rooftop
individual units the government promised subsidy for centralized large scale
solar plants,--- disclosed the quarry owner who invested forty lakhs probably
for a huge solar pipeline project. The total cost of a large pipe line solar
would come up to the range of forty crores and the governments central and
state together would issue sixty percent of the cost as subsidy to the private
solar pipeline installations. The logicof subsidizing private investors for the profitof private foreign manufacturers of solar
modules and tools, is alien even to the ethics of capitalist economy as well as to the
mixed economy . The day time looting of the public exchequer is simply
done to honour the agreement with the global money lenders who seek expansion
of solar customer market in the tropic of cancer for the benefit of private
solar companies in the U.S and the cold blooded West.

Why millions or crores should be extorted
as subsidy from the poor man’s exchequer to the foreign companies routedthrough the pleasures of the affluent class
who fancy that they win an excessof monetary gain out of the solar extravaganza ?
See that the contract signed with the W.T.O. and other global money lending
forcesinsist incentives from the
Government to generate solar customer market in India for the foreign companies,
particularly for the U.S. companies in specific terms.
Remember, the auspicious money lender institution W.B. has given ultimatum to
the Government of India to terminate all species of subsides to the destitute
classes; The government has been asked by the World Bank to extend a helping hand to
wring the necks of the starving farmer families engaged in the job of
collective suicide . The same money lender institutiondemands extraction of subsidy from the state
exchequer just to encourage gymnastics and acrobatics offoreign solar business in our country.The thesis of the world bank is simple but
inhuman: no subsidy from the treasury to sustain the life of dying farmer
community butvolumes of subsidy in
abundance to the foul solargame
performed by the fraudulent foreign solar institutions

In
Kerala , the programme for generating solarconsumer market touched urgency peakwith the proposed commissioning
of Kudamkulam nuclear plant that offeredthirteen percent of its electricity production to Kerala .It would
definitely sink the prospects of the solar market promised to the foreign companies. The Prime
Minister alleges that the funding agencies in the U.S. provide food , drinks and various pleasures of health and filth to the anti Kudamkulam agitations engineered by the
N.G.Os . In the U.S they have the largest empire of nuclear plants in the world
but the U.S.A.I.Dor any such funding
agency that unties the strings of their money baggage to save Kudamkulam from
the nuclear menace ignores the monstrous growth of nuclear plants in the U.S. The same funding agencies
in the U.S.that fuel the roaring bellies at the
Kudamkulam war front , provide us with loans and grants for solar and insist
that the maximum number of solar orders should be given to the U.S. companiesIt is a shocking irony of shame , that the Prime
Minster. who laments that the U.S. secretes funds for the
Kudamkulam energy traffic block ,signs a contract to generate an expanse of solar consumer
market that provides the U.S. companies with maximum number of solar business orders.

The funding agencies monitored by the
corporate institutions in the U.S., release finance in great quantum ,to build resistance against
hydro electric plants—from silent valley to Athirappally —and against nuclear
electricity plants on various grounds; but lend finance and sanction grant for
the solar energy installations claiming returns with penal interest. The global
monetary forces are at their worst, treacherous to the extent of conspiring sabotage
of nuclear plants. Invoking the memory
of the latestaccident in Japan and exploiting such
instances of dread they demonstrate thesafety flashes in the falsified mirror of solar, accompanied withloans and grants of
deceptive finance The die hard antagonism againstthethermal – hydro-- nuclear
electricity projects and favoritism forthe solar electricity plants, that find expression in the dubious U.S. finance expediency,
exemplify the foul tactics of financial terrorism endangering the future of
humanity.

The motive of the corporate houses lending
money via W.T.O. is nothing but the global monopoly of energy manufacturing, cornered to the U.S. centred corporate houses. They
route finance through World Bank ,W.T.O, A.D.B, UNEP or USAID and demand consumer orders for U.S. companies. They hold a
definite strategy to invalidate hydro electric energy owned and operatedas public sector asset in the third world nation states .The State of India in the present structure
of political economy maintain sound command over the thermal electricity plants,the hydro electricity plants and the nuclear electricity plants, whereas the
solar electricity business is administered by the private companies stationed
in the U.S, Germany, U.K., Switzerland,
Japan, Korea and such other foreign countries; and bysigning the W.T.O. agreement
India has taken an oath to provide
maximum number of orders to the U.S. beating other contestants in the global
market. Enfeebling the hydro electricity plants , nuclear and thermal plants
administered and commanded by the public sectorand invigorating the solar
electricity tradeadministered bythe foreign private enterprises ,is the
programme charted out by the U.S. corporate houses. The
intention behind the overzealous foreign funding for solar is clear. It is invalidation ,
paralysis and death of the public
sectorenergy management. It is enforced
privatization of the energy management.
It is the hegemony of foreign corporates in our energy sector. Money in huge quantum is extorted from the
public treasury for providing markets for the foreign masters . It is subjugation
by loans and grants, received asincentives to betraythe public
sector command upon energy production and dispensation. It is nauseating
exhibition of financial colonialism

Com. Acuthanandan claims that solar
energy is cheap when Tata Solar company the chieftain of Indian companies in
the global market, admits that the solar cost is high, and they are
investingin the Swiss company for
experimental projects that would invent devices for lowering the cost. Yet com.
Achuthanandan is right that the solar is cheap for the affluent class, as sixty
percent of the cost is met by the state and central governments as per the
conditions laid down in the agreements on loan and grants. You put your neck
into the debt trapand a cry from the
bursting blood vessels in the throat reveals the desperate fact: it is for this cheap consumption of the unwanted,
you die a death in the debt trap----- like the silent farmer race. It is suicide prepared for posterity also

The periodical hike in petrol
and diesel is alarming. It lowers the dignity of human life irrespective of
class. The power ministerof Kerala, and
the railway and transportation ministry often preach the necessity of raising the cost
of consumption. The power minister on one end raises the electricity tariff to
the highest level to cover the loss incurred in power generating system. Oo
Chandy and Manmohan on the other end lower the cost of solar with sixty percent
subsidy for production and consumption---- and if sixty percent subsidy from
the public treasury is allotted for every hydro electricity consumer bill,
which would be the cheaper, is another question that Comrade Achuthanandan would
find it difficult to respond

The show of siege definitely extended great
strike power, that hit the functioning of the disgusting phonetic disguise
projected from thethroat of the minister living in perpetual fear of resignation
,. He may quit perhaps in the near future but that doesn’t make any difference. The
servile non resistance to the colonial finance is the fate of present day
Indian political economy;Even the left,
already committed to the financial trap of the colonialfinance would find it difficult to get back
to the ideological position for a battle of resistance against the instrument of finance deployed by
the colonial forces;

The people , the cadre of the left and the leadership of the left are betrayed. They are betrayed by the paid agents
of the U.S.A I.D. within the left movement who misroutedand misdirected the objectives of the agitation to the level of the Wall
Street fashion show . The great Wall Street Assemblyof anarchy was nothing but a safety valve
releasefor the people’s wrath.. The anguish and distress in the pressure can of people’s
psyche was released and emptied through the safety valve of the great siegeThe rule and hegemony of finance capitalism
was saved of an explosion of the pressure that wouldmean a revolution; The intruders within the left were preparing a safety outlet for the wrath of the
people suspended in the hell and hegemony of finance colonialism. It was done,
as the crowd went self dispersed dreaming the glorious day that would bring the
news of Oo . Chandy’s resignation. The resignation is a non issue. The major
issue is that of the W.T.O. agreement that subverts the public sector energy
command, for a bribe of thirty dices; The major issue is the U.S. funded agitation blockade
against public sector hydro electricity projects and nuclear projects. The major
issue is that of the solar finance anarchy that marks the
privatization of our energy asset . The major issue is that the preference for the solarand the sixty percent subsidy are not either the will of the people or the
policy of the government but the dictate
of the colonial masters of finance who
hire us with the baits of grants and loans. Resignation of the Chief Minister
is in no way a resolution to the issue of political economy, narrated above, as the left democratic frontalso opt for the privatization anda wholesale dealof Indian energy sources.

The demonstration ofthe siege happens to be a festival of cowardice, as Com.
Prakash Karat would never gather that much courage to utter a single word even
against the W.T.O agreement or the rush of colonial finance that subjugates our
economy toward absolute sterility and servility. It would burn the vocal cord
of any such leader who opens his mind in the right direction of the issue.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Technology has become the carrier of the mass communication networks of capitalism. This is nothing new as way back in 1970s, Raymond Williams had predicted the impact of television in the global arena. The surge of technology has been exponential since then. We have reached a stage where technology has become a deterministic voice in all most all the political and economical discourses of the day, ranging from the national election verdicts to the decisions in the defense sector and the usage of nuclear energy for the nation state. Energy and media has become the two powerful discourses for this trade craft targeting the emerging economies all around the world. When media gets fragmented into the discourses around data - money equality and information economy hype the story evolves into another mystification. In this post, our focus is on the Indian state of Kerala where the promises of Solar energy of Salvation became an abhorrent criminal drama.In the previous article, #PAATOM has narrated the state of political, economical and criminal affairs in Kerala inspired by the bribal stories from all political parties and business magnets and all sort of criminal elements in Kerala. Normally December has been celebrated as the month of the Sun 'god'. Thanks to these efforts, media across Kerala could generate enough TRP around the Solar scam.What next? what is fundamentally wrong in the Solar scheme of energy? For any form of energy to become viable and a consistent source of energy, it should have a stable network design for generation, transmission, transformation and consumption. In the case of Solar energy the possibility of transforming the strength of this energy source is very very limited as it is an instant form of energy. In the case of hydroelectric or thermal or nuclear forms of energy there are vivid possibilities of transformation and amplification of energy. The potential for conversion, storage and versatility are more important when considering an energy source as a candidate for a nation state.

No matter your level of technological sophistication and efficiency of energy conversion, it is impossible to derive more solar energy from a unit of land than that which falls upon it from space — which is a lot globally, but spread incredibly thinly, like hot butter scraped over too much bread. There is nothing you can ever do to overcome the problem of diffuse solar energy — vast areas will always be required to harness it in significant volumes.

( The Solar Fraud, Howard C. Hayden )

Here we see that life and its struggle for survival has become a feast or ritualistic game for many pundits of Global market . The think tanks of this capitalism believe that using surrogates they can keep the cycles of capitalism for eternity. Surrogate capitalism: it is not a jargon, but a realization that capital has become a flat entity that can conceal its interests from the reasoning capabilities of the social self and the societal imperatives. Thus by concealing its identity from the people indulging in the market transactions, capital grows itself by leaps and bounds. Criminals, technocrats, media magnets, sports stars, instant celebrities all become the surrogates of this brutal treachery. Earlier in 1990s we saw how developmental economics, welfare state, agricultural productivity and poverty alleviation became the seductive discourses for subverting the national and sovereign interests of nation states. Exposures from #PAATOM on these plots are in the previous posts in this blog.In the current decade we are witnessing how Energy has become the dominant discourse for imposing an imperial and neo-colonial plot on the Economic epic center of a state. A nuclear energy deal could decide the fate of a political party in Indian soil. Now #Solar scam is looming large over the head of many a political veterans of Kerala state. Yet the architects of this scheme remain behind the scene largely, safely and calmly gazing at the horizon of the solar winters !As well elaborated in the previous article, this scandal is not only about the bribes that reached the wallets of a few. On the contrary, how this hyperbolic scandal could sail easily through the energy audits of the government. The whole story evolves around a multinational collaboration involving many intellectual faces as well. Their Swiss connections, their pan European expeditions, intellectual pursuits, all for the energy feast and the multi-billion dollar purchases. These energy advocates have been lecturing for renewable energy for quite some time. It had captured the imagination of many youngsters who started start-ups around this hype. The fate of their adventures will be decided in the coming days. Our investigations should go beyond the executioners of this energy scam to unravel the real energy advocates of this scandalous scheme.